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AiVi Nguyen and Chelsie Vokes Write “How to counter the Shecession” for the Worcester Business Journal

By AiVi Nguyen and Chelsie A. Vokes • June 8, 2021

With the Shecession, 2020 saw the lowest number of women in the workforce since 1988 according to the National Women’s Law Center. Now, employers need to start planning how they will remedy the effects of the Shecession. AiVi Nguyen and Chelsie Vokes discuss what steps businesses can take to better support their female employees.

Whether through town halls or field meetings and surveys, it takes a mindset shift to surface employees’ pain points in this new environment. HR executives are conditioned not to cross professional/personal boundaries, but they need to throw that playbook out the window.

Continue reading “How to counter the Shecession” on the Worcester Business Journal’s website.

Categorized: COVID-19 Resources, Policies

Tagged In: coronavirus, COVID-19, gender equality, shecession, women employees, Worcester Business Journal

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AiVi Nguyen

AiVi Nguyen is a business lawyer with a specialty in litigation, a practical strategist with a focus on complex contract, real estate and employment disputes. AiVi represents businesses of all sizes and in all stages of growth in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island in a wide variety of industries spanning from healthcare to craft breweries. “I think of myself as a problem solver,” she says. AiVi’s goal is to get her clients the best result in the most efficient manner. Sometimes that means taking a matter all the way through trial, where AiVi has proven to be an aggressive and successful advocate.

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Chelsie A. Vokes

Chelsie Vokes is an employment, labor and higher education attorney. She represents clients in the full spectrum of employment litigation matters, including wage and hour claims, discrimination actions, non-competition and trade secret disputes, Title IX matters, and contract claims, in state and federal courts, in arbitration and mediation, and before state and federal agencies.

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